This book focuses on the author's four-month walkabout across Australia with a small tribe of aboriginals. "A door had opened," writes the American author as she begins her account of the experience, "and I had entered a world I didn't know existed." Written as a work of fiction in order to protect the identity of her hosts on this journey, this bestselling adventure story vividly conveys the wisdom of these indigenous people whose ancestors have lived on earth for more than 50,000 years. It will take a major change of heart for most other human creatures to live as lightly on the earth as do "the Real People" — as they call themselves — and to see the environment, as they do, mainly as "a learning place for emotions."

The mysticism of these aboriginals is medicine for our fragmented, divisive, ego-driven, and cynical times. In "Mutant Message Down Under," Marlo Morgan brings us back to the circle, challenges us to speak from the heart, and admonishes us to believe that "everything is an opportunity for spiritual enrichment."